{"id":2044,"date":"2012-12-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totellyouthetruth.net\/?p=2044"},"modified":"2012-12-20T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T14:00:00","slug":"media-and-the-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/?p=2044","title":{"rendered":"Media and the Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2012\/december-web-only\/media-and-massacre.html\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Crouch<\/a> wrote an article for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Christianity Today<\/a> in which he says, &#8220;True compassion requires turning off the news.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All that any of us who do not live in Newtown, Connecticut, truly needed to know\u2014possibly more than we needed to know\u2014appeared in a 12-word news alert on my phone Friday afternoon. Almost everything else, I believe, was a distraction from the only thing that we who are not first responders, pastors, or parents in that community needed to do at that moment: to pray, which is to say, to put ourselves at the mercy of God and hold those who harmed and those who were harmed before the mercy of God.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2012\/december-web-only\/media-and-massacre.html\" target=\"_blank\">Media and the Massacre<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Crouch wrote an article for Christianity Today in which he says, &#8220;True compassion requires turning off the news.&#8221; All that any of us who do not live in Newtown, Connecticut, truly needed to know\u2014possibly more than we needed to know\u2014appeared in a 12-word news alert on my phone Friday afternoon. Almost everything else, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[74],"tags":[116,155,311,314],"class_list":["post-2044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-views","tag-andy-crouch","tag-christianity-today","tag-massacre","tag-media-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3hM8I-wY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}